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Physics

New accelerator sails through key test – recovering energy

Cornell Chronicle

A half-century after the idea of energy-recovering accelerators was proposed at Cornell, the university is showing that high-energy physics can also be renewable-energy physics.

Sociology

Rigged card game sheds light on perceptions of inequality

Cornell Chronicle

A few years ago, Cornell doctoral students Mario Molina and Mauricio Bucca, Ph.D. ’18, were playing President, a card game, when they noticed winners attributing the game’s outcome to skill and losers blaming their defeat on the rules.

Student activism

Space-themed fashion line launches student to NASA blastoff

Cornell Chronicle

When Shoshana Swell ’20 learned in March that NASA had scrubbed plans for an all-female spacewalk because it lacked women’s spacesuits, she got frustrated.

Awards

Three A&S faculty win White House early career awards

The White House has recognized four Cornell faculty members – Thomas Hartman, Jenny Kao-Kniffin, Kin Fai Mak and Rebecca Slayton – with prestigious 2019 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The awards were announced July 2.The award is the highest honor bestowed by the federal government to scientific and engineering professionals who are in first stages of their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership.

To understand where exoplanets are in their own evolution, astronomers can use Earth’s biological milestones as a Rosetta stone.
Astronomy

Exoplanet evolution: Astronomers expand cosmic ‘cheat sheet’

Cornell astronomers have reached into nature’s color palette from early Earth to create a cosmic “cheat sheet” for looking at distant worlds. By correlating tints and hues, researchers aim to understand where discovered exoplanets may reasonably fall along their own evolutionary spectrum.

Astronomy

Cornell to celebrate 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 July 20

A&S Communications

Cornell will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing with an afternoon of discussion about the future of planetary and exoplanetary discovery. “From the Moon to Mars and Beyond” will take place on July 20, the actual anniversary of astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin descending from the Eagle spacecraft onto the lunar surface. The event will feature two talks and a panel discussion and will be held from 2-4:30 pm in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.

Anthropology

Student Spotlight: Annapaola Passerini

Annapaola Passerini is a doctoral candidate in anthropology from Sale Marasino, Italy. After attending Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy for her undergraduate work, she chose to attend Cornell for the opportunity to work alongside her advisors while expanding her horizons through participation in an American graduate program.

Chemistry

New imaging method aids in water decontamination

Cornell Chronicle

The new method can image nonfluorescent catalytic reactions – reactions that don’t emit light – on nanoscale particles.

c elegans nematode
Molecular Biology & Genetics

What a transparent worm can reveal

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story focuses on the work of Jun "Kelly" Liu, professor of molecular biology and genetics, whose lab uses c. elegans nematodes to explore questions that improve the general understanding of developmental processes, stem cell biology and cellular reprogramming, and fundamental mechanisms involved in cell-cell signaling. 

Astronomy

Cornell chosen to host fellowship in planetary astronomy

A&S Communications

Cornell has been selected as one of 14 U.S.-based host institutions for the 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellowship in Planetary Astronomy. The fellowship, supported by the Heising-Simons Foundation, provides up to eight postdoctoral scientists per year up to $375,000 of support for independent research over three years.

Anthropology

Anthropology Ph.D. candidate named Newcombe fellow

Cornell Chronicle

Natalie Nesvaderani, a doctoral candidate in anthropology, was recently selected as a recipient of the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. Administered through the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Nesvaderani is one of 23 recipients for the 2019-20 academic year.Nesvaderani is studying the intersection of documentary film, migration and children’s labor in Iran.

English

New book explores children’s emotional expression

A&S Communications

The myriad ways children manage and express their feelings and emotions is the subject of the new book “Don’t Use Your Words! Children’s Emotions in a Networked World,” by Jane Juffer, Cornell professor of English.

Physics

Data visualization could reveal nature of the universe

Cornell Chronicle

“Science works because things behave much more simply than they have any right to.”

Government

Government professor honored with book prize

A&S Communications

David Bateman, assistant professor of government, was recently named a co-winner of the J. David Greenstone Prize from the American Political Science Association for best book in history and politics, for his book "Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing a Mass Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France."

Chemistry & chemical biology

Chemistry professor honored by international society

A&S Communications

Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot professor of chemistry & chemical biology, was recently awarded the Frumkin Memorial Medal from the International Society of Electrochemistry, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field.